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Gatekeepers of the Arab Past: Historians and History Writing in Twentieth-Century Egypt
Yoav Di-Capua
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Paperback. A study that illuminates the Egyptian experience of modernity by critically analyzing the foremost medium through which it was articulated: history. Covering more than one hundred years of mostly unexamined historical literature in Arabic, it explores Egyptian historical thought and examines the careers of numerous critical historians. Num Pages: 406 pages, 4 b/w photographs, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JJ; HBJF1; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 560.
This groundbreaking study illuminates the Egyptian experience of modernity by critically analyzing the foremost medium through which it was articulated: history. The first comprehensive analysis of a Middle Eastern intellectual tradition, "Gatekeepers of the Past" examines a system of knowledge that replaced the intellectual and methodological conventions of Islamic historiography only at the very end of the nineteenth century. Covering more than one hundred years of mostly unexamined historical literature in Arabic, Yoav Di-Capua explores Egyptian historical thought, examines the careers of numerous critical historians, and traces this tradition's uneasy relationship with colonial forms of knowledge as well as with ... Read more
This groundbreaking study illuminates the Egyptian experience of modernity by critically analyzing the foremost medium through which it was articulated: history. The first comprehensive analysis of a Middle Eastern intellectual tradition, "Gatekeepers of the Past" examines a system of knowledge that replaced the intellectual and methodological conventions of Islamic historiography only at the very end of the nineteenth century. Covering more than one hundred years of mostly unexamined historical literature in Arabic, Yoav Di-Capua explores Egyptian historical thought, examines the careers of numerous critical historians, and traces this tradition's uneasy relationship with colonial forms of knowledge as well as with ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
406
Condition
New
Number of Pages
406
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520257337
SKU
V9780520257337
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About Yoav Di-Capua
Yoav Di-Capua is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin.
Reviews for Gatekeepers of the Arab Past: Historians and History Writing in Twentieth-Century Egypt
"The book is extremely ambitious, and the reader will immediately appreciate ... Di-Capua's efforts in undertaking such a monumental task." American Historical Review